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8/20/16

Forget the cost, the unfinished infrastructure, the stifling heat and Zika, the queues and traffic and the organization problems, iffy ticket sales by IOC members, half-empty stadiums for marquee events, green diving pools or morally-challenged swimmers telling tall tales about locals. Ask any Brazilian and they'll tell you it was all worth it because if you win the football gold, nothing else matters.

8/19/16

With a hat-tip to reader R, we feature The Tragically Hip as they're currently on their farewell tour.

And that's no joke, this one really is farewell as thisOttawa Citizen report explains. It starts like this:

It’s the storybook ending no one wanted written.

They may hail from Kingston, where on Saturday the band will close
the final chapter of a tale carved out of Canadiana, but The Tragically
Hip are every Canadian’s hometown band.

And so, emotions were raw at Canadian Tire Centre on Thursday as fans
congregated one last time to bid farewell to their favourite band in a
way befitting The Hip — by rocking out to the bitter end and singing
along to every last lyric, or swaying along with a shoulder to cry on.

"Randgold's
exemplary health and safety record, which continues to improve over time,
secures the productivity of our very important asset, the workforce.
And it's genuinely meaningful outreach initiatives, such as Mark's most
recent charity motorbike safari from east to west of equatorial Africa,
reinforces the hard-earned social licence which is so vital to the
company's success and our sustainability."

Here's Mark Bristow "on charity safari". The motorbike seems to be missing from these shots, though.

Sustainability.

Social licence.

Outreach initiatives.

Oh yeah.

Interestingly, Norway's Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), the largest State-run pension fund in the world, recently dropped Tahoe Resources (TAHO) from its holdings due to its poor social responsibility and ethics record. They still hold shares of Randgold (GOLD) but state that the holding is "under observation" due to its iffy track record. Let's hope nobody forwards these photos to Norway, eh Mark?

With rising gold prices papering over precious metals miner management left, right and centre, it's easy to forget just how pathetically run some of these mining companies truly are. And on that cue, step forward Steve Letwin!

Remember Coté Lake, the thing Trelawney explored "in a hurry" and then flogged to IAMGOLD? It's certainly worth revisiting this letter into Nothern Miner from an experienced third party economic geologist who poured scorn on the project in 2011 with this opinion on the project, including the fabulous line, "...history has shown repeatedly that hurrying results to meet the expectations of those who may have little interest in oversight and due diligence is a perilous path." But Steve Letwin knew better, didn't listen and in 2012 decided to pay CAD$608m in cash for the thing.

The only substantive news we've had about Coté since then was in 2015, when IMG.to announced the news of the U$400m impairment on the project.That's US Dollars mind, no Loonies. So even if you ignore the opportunity cost, even if you believe IAG hasn't spent a dime on the project since then, that's around $1.50/share blown off the value of this company by Steve Letwin's pisspoor executive decisions.

A nice scoopette out of Reuters last night.Link here, first lines here:

Canada's Kinross
Gold Corp is looking to retreat from Chile and has put its main assets
in that country up for sale, according to people familiar with the
process.The move comes at a
time Toronto-based Kinross has suspended operations at Maricunga, its
major mine in Chile, because of environmental concerns raised by the
Chilean regulator. continues here

In other words, Special K is getting a fit of pique because Chile won't allow them to screw up their environment any longer. This is the type of "Your Laws Shouldn't Apply To Us" stupidity that gives mining a bad name across the world. And if this reminds you of the IKN post dated March 21st 2016 entitled "The Kinross (K.to) (KGC) Maricunga mine closed due to "Irreparable damage" to the environment" that catalogues the criminal damage K caused to an important wetland area in Chile, I wouldn't be surprised.

Sometimes it's more interesting when a chart does nothing. I found it pretty amusing to watch Goldman Sachs roll out its "copper supply wall" hit jobs recently, they choosing the August quiet period (vacays in N.America, slacking buying period in China) to try and scare people out of bullish positions. The reaction to the Vampire Squid has been Damp Squib, copper's holding very nicely, real money knows that GS are happy selling their own grandparents (i.e. fading their own clients). The bottom is in with copper, the only difference is that the rebound hasn't been and is unlikely to be as quick and springy as gold (or others).

8/18/16

In IKN376 dated July 24th 2016, the main event was a 12 page analysis of Atico Mining (ATY.v) which forecast the company would post a loss in its 2q16 financials but it didn't matter, the stock was cheap and a good buy.

This week it reported its quarter on schedule, it posted the expected loss but since then this is what's happened to the stock:

Yup, right on the button. ATY.v is up 34% in the three weeks since this conclusion section to the note was written.

The IKN
Weekly recommends Atico Mining (ATY.v) as a buy and sets a six (not 12) month
share price target of C$0.70 on the stock, representing a 59% upside from this
weekend’s CAD$0.44. The price target is predicated on the main catalyst, which
is that ATY will indeed be able to cover its debt repayment schedule during
2016 and once it has got to the end of the year, the market will re-rate the
stock on its stronger fundamentals and proven capacity to make profits even at
the current modest prices levels for copper. I’m going for a target based on a
reasonable 1.2X price/book ratio once people see the balance sheet clean up,
which may turn out to be a staging post for greater things. An eventual stock
price in the mid-80s wouldn’t surprise me in the least.

What ATY offers today is a trading
advantage, it’s clear to me after running the numbers that ATY isn’t in the
type of uncertain financial position that most people assume. It’s going to
file a weak looking set of 2q16 financials with sales and a bottom line loss
that those who aren’t looking may consider a reason to sell or avoid, but the
key to understanding this stock isn’t in the P+L, it’s the balance sheet (“it’s
the economy, stupid”). If copper prices improve then so does this stock, that’s
a given but even if they don’t, ATY‘s going to be just fine and that makes for
a very low downside risk attached to an entry either today or when the 2q16
financials come out in mid-August. Low risk balanced against high potential
reward is my kind of equation. I will buy some ATY.v in the week ahead and it
will become part of the ‘Stocks to Follow’ list as from next weekend.

That's type of thing you're allowed to write if you actually understand mining company numbers, instead of pretending to understand them. Any further questions?

UPDATE: Here's a free offer that comes after receiving a suggestion from a reader. If anyone would like a free copy of the full 12 page report on Atico Mining (ATY.v) from IKN376, just send a mail into the usual address...

otto.rock1 (AT) gmail (DOT) com

...and put "Atico Report Yes Please" in your title line. I'll send you over a PDF copy of the whole analysis by return (and unlike the scamsters at Stansberry Research or Casey Research you won't get a whole barrage of marketing mails from me afterwards, it'll just be that one and that's a promise).

This is a very good panel on mining. Joe Mazumdar of Exploration Insights, Joe's young and promising protegé Brent Cook, John-Mark Staude of Riverside Resources (RRI.v) and Morgan Poliquin of Almaden (AMM.to) and Almadex sit down and get grilled by Tekoa Da Silva of Sprott. This was recorded at the recent Sprott Vancouver conference and you can watch it here. And here.

And he does it very well. Three weekends ago in IKN378, your humble scribe made quick mention of Golden Tag (GOG.v) in the intro to the edition as an example of a company and a project in the shape of its San Diego silver thing in Mexico that should have been taken out and shot years ago. Here's most of that piece:

"... At first sight San Diego’s
silver resource has some eye-popping numbers, something like 180m oz in
indicated and inferred categories. But look closer and you’ll see it’s a joke, a
bad joke at that, based on $28/oz silver and 2oz to 3oz per tonne inferred
category silver rock that’s very deep (500m+ down) and would be mined via block caving methods.
The stock was mentioned by A. Mailer as “optionality on silver” but it’s not
going to happen folks, you might get “optionality on complete idiots” but
that’s about it."

Therefore it was good to see T.A.G. pick up on GOG.v at San Diego and run a post on the project yesterday, because he does it much better than me. An excellent exposé of this dog of dogs and recommended reading. And the way, GOG.v is yet another worthless company that's been pumped recently by the bullshit merchants at CEO.ca to the unsuspecting neophytes attracted to Tommy Humphreys' site like flies round orignale dung.

One thing that your average junior gold mining company doesn't want in its permitting track is an overdose of political eyes looking at its project, kicking up a fuss and making noise in the media, particularly if your project is looking for its key environmental permit and has already been loudly opposed by the locals around it. The company would much prefer things to be contained and managed deep inside the ministry, with publicity-seeking politicos and the national public kept away. Especially true when the country in question has just seen a massive tailings dam failure and you plan to build a massive tailings dam that will hold back all the nasties you need to process away from your gold that will be right next to a major river.

Therefore the news yesterday thatNational (not regional) politico Telmário Mota, a senator for the PDT party, wants to hold a full public hearing in Brazil's Committee on Environment, Consumer Protection, Inspection and Control in the national parliament in Brasilia about the Belo Sun (BSX.to) Volta Grande project is not good news for the company. Not one little bit.

Among other things, Mr. Mota is demanding a full public inquiry regarding all benefits and risks of the project, including a study on the impact of any eventual mine to local population centres, larger downstream populations and the regional biodiversity. He also wants all stakeholders to appear at the hearings, including BSX.to executives, enviro people IBAMA, the National
Indigenous Foundation "Funai", the Attorney General's Office (PGR) and
third party mining specialists. Supporting his cause is another Senator from the PSDB-PA party, Flexa Ribeiro, who is caling for Pará regional bigwigs to appear.

One that comes above it on the scale of flattery is being bashed by the fucktard assholes at the Frank Giustra puppet Tommy Humphrey's website, the self-promoting paid-pumper and neophyte rape shop CEO.ca. Seriously, being slagged by people who charge moose-pasture peddling junior mining companies to say nice things about them in order to get know-nothings to buy their intrinsically worthless stock is one of the sweeter and more precious ironies in this sector of liars, thieves and scumbags. Keep it up, guys, being called names by the dregs of society is a high compliment.

Word from Colombia is that a few days ago Continental Gold (CNL.to) met with the official environmental body ANLA and was given a list of around 50 comments on things that the enviro people want further information and/or details on in their mine plan. This step, known as "observaciones", is a standard part of the permitting track and as long as there aren't any massive red flag items in the list (which was given to CNL orally last week, they receive the official written list in a few days' time) it's good news and shows things are progressing well. In fact it's almost impossible to imagine any enviro body not making a list of observaciones for a project (not just ANLA and not just Colombia), they need to justify their jobs and show they aren't giving mining companies a free pass.

This fits in with the company's claim that they'll receive the key EIA permit in 4q16 or 1q17. CNL has also made it known locally that there's nothing on the list of 50 observaciones that looks particularly problematic.

Their chosen targets are INV Metals (INV.to) and its Loma Larga project, then China's Junefield Mineral Resources and its Rio Blanco project (that just got the green light for development).

The INV.to opposition comes just after publication of the recent 43-101 compliant updated pre-feas that saw the stock bump up and over $1. It's dropped back since then. It also comes in the prelude period before a scheduled referendum vote in the locality, where the locals will be asked to vote for or against approval of the project.

And yes, this is the same project that used to be called Quimsacocha and owned by IAMGOLD (IAG.to) (IMG), the one that was ruined by Fire Steve Letwin due to his heavy-handed and arrogant way with the local community.

Against INV.to, MiningWatch and the Ecuador campaigners who have sent an official protest letter to the Ecuador government refer to a technical report authored by Jim Kuipers of Kuipers and Associates. Kuipers is no lightweight, as recognized by one of your author's industry mailpals, a highly experienced mining engineer who called him "a formidable opponent" and "the scourge of miners throughout the Americas".

Neither MiningWatch nor the Ecuador campaign groups make mention of Lundin Gold (LUG.to) at Fruta del Norte. Either they've given up trying to oppose that one or they're impressed with the way LUG has gone about its business (fwiw, I agree with that second one).

It's not the first time this quote from the great JK Galbraith has made it to the blog, but as it's so good and as it's been on my mind again this morning, I thought I'd share in a quick post. Here you go.

"At
any given time there exists an inventory of undiscovered embezzlement
in — or more precisely not in — the country’s businesses and banks. This
inventory — it should perhaps be called the bezzle — amounts at any
moment to many millions of dollars. It also varies in size with the
business cycle. In good times people are relaxed, trusting, and money is
plentiful. But even though money is plentiful, there are always many
people who need more. Under these circumstances the rate of embezzlement
grows, the rate of discovery falls off, and the bezzle increases
rapidly. In depression all this is reversed. Money is watched with a
narrow, suspicious eye. The man who handles it is assumed to be
dishonest until he proves himself otherwise. Audits are penetrating and
meticulous. Commercial morality is enormously improved. The bezzle
shrinks."

In Spanish there's an expression "arroz con mango", literally "rice with mango". Suggesting a combination of two foods that don't work together, it's
used when something that looks cobbled together for convenience
purposes with no real strategic direction, a weird fusion, a concept that leaves one scratching the noggin. This news out of Gold Mountain (GUM.v), Lowell Copper (JDL.v) and Anthem United (AFY.v) Monday morning fits right in with the image. Sticking together a failed David Lowell vehicle (yes and I know he's one of the most successful exploration geologists ever but he's taken risks all his life and it's hardly the first time a project has blown up on him, as he'd be first to tell you) that was supposed to go for the Ricardo project in Chile (the fabled bit that fell off Chuqui), a Marin Katusa piece of moose pasture in Canada that Almaden managed to fob off to him once upon a time that's never going anywhere (they don't even bother to hide its Moosiness, calling it Elk) then tiny toll miner start-up in Peru that was put together to try and ride what's turned out to be a very small wave in Canadian public companies doing what Peruvian private companies do, but much cheaper. So count it up and...

...massive (and failed) copper target in Chile (JDL also brings in a marginal second string copper thing in Ecuador, too)
...tiny toll mill in Peru running at a loss
...early stage gold thing in Canada that will go nowhere recent used by Katusa and Rick Rule as a pump job.

Why they should stick these three together, aside from the fact they share the same office space and might get sponsorship from Sandstorm (SAND) just down the corridor, is beyond me. Apart from the obvious potential of pumping another piece of crap to retail saps. Marcel de Groot, David De Witt and all those Pathway guys trying to save something from this collective mess, I suppose.

8/16/16

I don't normally excerpt the weekend's edition of The IKN Weekly twice, but in this case I'll make an exception as this piece has been requested on the open blog by A. Mailer for their own reasons (that are fair enough). So here you go.

Argentina: Beware inflation (again)

The message
about Argentina here at The IKN Weekly has been consistent: Yes there is new
interest about the country since Macri took over, but fools rush in where
angels fear to tread and the reforms he wants to push through have no guarantee
of success.

We’ve also
been pointing at the key datapoint you need to follow for almost a year, long
before it got popular in the trade press. Macri needs to lower inflation and he
and his team have always set “the second half of 2016” as their target for
this. The reason is simple enough: Under Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
inflation was always high, but large percentage pay increases saw the
purchasing power of the average Argentine keep pace with prices. This isn’t a
sustainable situation in the long-term and leads to real hyperinflation
problems (see Venezuela), but it can keep things stable in the medium-term and
nearly always longer than orthodox economists claim. But under Macri salary
rises have been largely crimped, so inflation needs to come down quickly
because if not, Argentina suddenly becomes poor in Peso terms (which is what
counts when you’re in the supermarket).

That’s the
VERY basic outline, now for the rub because doubts are now arising about this
fight against inflation, here are a couple of links for your consideration.

Here in
this Reuters report (14) last week, the local bigwig for JP Morgan, Facundo Gómez
Minujin, said the following (translated):

“For this year we see
inflation at 42% and then for next year 21%. And it’s difficult to change that
trend. It’s difficult to lower inflation by much, especially next year when
there are elections”.

By that, he’s referring to the
round of Congressional mid-term elections when a lot of the seats in the national
parliament are up for grabs. This will be the first big test of the results of
the Macri government policies. The assumption is that the hardline macro/fiscal
policy will have to be softened for a period and more populist policies offered
to give the Macri government a chance of doing well. I needn’t tell this
audience of the potential dangers being baked into the pie. As a sidebar, it’s
also easy to argue that “21% for 2017” is rather optimistic as well,
rose-tinted specs from someone who wants Macri to do well.

Meanwhile this article in The
Economist (15) last week suggested that the Macri honeymoon period is coming to
an end and also focussed on the price inflation/salary see-saw as key. Here’s
an excerpt from the piece, plus one of its visuals:

Mr Macri has reservoirs of
political strength and popular goodwill to draw on. Though Argentines are
angry, most still blame the Kirchners for their hardship. Allegations of
corruption have enfeebled Ms Fernández as a political force. A new generation
of politicians is competing to become the next presidential candidate of her
Peronist party, weakening its ability to provide opposition to the government.

But Mr Macri’s honeymoon
is coming to an end (see chart). With legislative elections due in October
2017, “the government needs to show some economic results in the first quarter
of next year,” argues Juan Cruz Díaz of Cefeidas Group, an advisory firm. The
IMF thinks the economy will rebound in 2017; it forecasts growth of 2.8%.

My only argument with the above is
this line, “Though Argentines are angry,
most still blame the Kirchners for their hardship”, because “most” is way
too strong and “some” is a more accurate image (please recall the decade-long
hatred The Economist showed for the Kirchnerist governments, they’re anything
but unbiased). It’s also notable how political commentators (largely
sympathetic to the Macri cause) are starting to shift the time window to “the
first quarter of 2017”, even though Macri ran and won his election of “second
half of 2016” as the critical period when the sacrifices he demanded of
Argentines would start to bear fruits. Add in this CEOP poll that shows 7 out
of10 Argentines unhappy with their personal economy and opposition popularity
at 47% versus Macri government popularity down to 33% (15a) and the scene is
set for the big fight to come. Argentina the political beast has always been
sensitive to its economic well-being, so if Macri does turn things around in
the next two quarters we may be witnessing the low point of his acceptance
ratings. If he doesn’t I can guarantee this audience, as day follows night,
they’re going to get a lot worse.

The bottom line: The song remains
the same, be very careful of Argentina exposure, ladies and gentlemen. Yes
there are opportunities there, in our focus sector of mining and others, but
the risks are much higher than the promoters of the country and its concession
land would have you believe. Take for example one scenario in which we see
large-scale protests building in the first and second quarters of 2017, then
the CFK end of the political spectrum doing well in the 2017 mid-terms and
wresting control (total or partial) away from Macri in congress. Attitudes
towards the country would quickly return to “Ah well, they’ve been FUBAR forever
anyway, at least we serious people tried...” and the FDI that Macri needs to complete
his economic turnaround won’t happen and that statement very much includes
those mining projects we all like to talk about.

As I put it to one person last
week, a historic window of opportunity tends to come around in Argentina mining
from cycle to cycle and that window is right now...for people wanting to sell.
Be it land, projects or concessions, you get interest from opportunistic buyers
and that grows into a fully-fledged seller’s market. People owning mining
assets in Argentina have the chance to book safe profits on previous
investments right here right now in 2016. But the issue is 2017, because if
they hold on to their land assets for a while longer those profits might be
even higher next year, Macri starts turning Argentina around meaningfully and
the buying interest becomes a feeding frenzy. But if things go wrong next year,
the window will suddenly slam shut as it’s done so many times before.
Risk/reward is favourable today, but could go badly out of balance in the near
future.

So after that sharp move down to 66X, reports of gold's death are etc etc etc. Don Coxe would see a second waterfall drop in the immediate future, though silver is running away with this battle just yet. When I checked the chart this morning it turned out to be more interesting than I expected, so here we are.

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8/15/16

This morning Goldmoney Inc (XAU.to), the (and I quote) "financial technology company operating a global, 100%-reserved gold-based financial network" released its 2q16 financial results. As it's now been four quarters since Goldmoney in its present form was created (the merger of Goldmoney and Bitgold) I thought I'd have a look at the numbers underneath this story, what with the claim it makes of having "More than 1 million user signups with $1.8 billion in customer assets as at June 30, 2016".

One million user signups? Hell's teeth, that's a lot of new people on board, they must have brought in a lot of precious metals assets to this banking vehicle, right?

Wrong.

Here's how the customer assets of gold have evolved in the four quarters:

XAU.to has added just 6,388 oz of gold in those four quarters. By the way, nearly all this gold came from the long established UK-based Goldmoney when it was folded into the Bitgold public traded vehicle.

Here's how the customer assets of silver have evolved in the four quarters:

XAU.to has lost 617,254oz of silver in the period. And at current silver/gold ratios, that's over 9,000 oz gold equivalent and means the net improvement in customer assets is in fact negative.

Here's how the customer assets of platinum have evolved in the four quarters:

XAU.to has added just 544 oz of platinum in the four quarters (this is small stuff next to the gold and silver assets, though)

Here's how the customer assets of palladium have evolved in the four quarters:

XAU.to has lost 137 oz of palladium in the four quarters (this is also small stuff next to the Au and Ag numbers).

I think it's safe to say that XAU.to is having a little trouble converting those one million new sign-ups into active customers. So pray tell, why is this company running a market cap of $300m?

This morning it suddenly dawned on me how exploration stage junior mining companies can be quantatively valued. All you need is an electronic I-Ching calculator. Douglas Adams in "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" will explain:

The electronic I Ching calculator was badly made. It had probably been
manufactured in whichever of the South-East Asian countries was busy
tooling up to do to South Korea what South Korea was busy doing to
Japan. Glue technology had obviously not progressed in that country to
the point where things could be successfully held together with it.
Already the back had half fallen off and needed to be stuck back on with
Sellotape.

It was much like an ordinary pocket calculator,
except that the LCD screen was a little larger than usual, in order to
accommodate the abridged judgments of King Wen on each of the sixty-four
hexagrams, and also the commentaries of his son, the Duke of Chou, on
each of the lines of the hexagram. These were unusual texts to see
marching across the display of a pocket calculator, particularly as they
had been translated from the Chinese via the Japanese and seemed to
have enjoyed many adventures on the way.

The device also
functioned as an ordinary calculator, but only to a limited degree. It
could handle any calculation which returned an answer of anything up to
"4".'

'"1 + 1" it could manage ("2"), and "1 + 2" ("3") and "2 +
2" ("4") or "tan 74" ("3.4874145"), but anything above "4" it
represented merely as "A Suffusion of Yellow". Dirk was not certain if
this was a programming error or an insight beyond his ability to fathom,
but he was crazy about it anyway, enough to hand over £20 of ready cash
for the thing.

Here's one of the reports in the 'Regional Politics' section of The IKN Weekly, out yesterday evening.

Guatemala: Mining royalty payments set to increase

Last week
in the politics section we noted the slight mystery of a new Vice-minister of
Mining in Guatemala. This week the reasons behind the change may have become
clear, as the country’s President Jimmy Morales announced (10) a whole range of
tax increase proposals that include a bump of duty on fuel from Thee Quetzals
(GTQ) to Five Quetzals (1 Quetzal = U$0.133) per US gallon, additions to VAT
(sales tax) and corporate income tax back up to 29% (from 25%).

All those
will affect mining costs in Guatemala indirectly, but the one that really
matters is the Jimmy Morales proposal to raise royalties on extractive
industries (i.e. O&G and mining) from 1% to 10%. At the moment, several
mining companies in Guatemala are paying more than the legally stipulated 1%,
with “voluntary payments” topping up royalties to between 5% and 5.5% (the
highest profile cases are Goldcorp at Marlin and Tahoe Resources at Escobal). But
the royalty initiative is only one of a total of 47 changes proposed by parliamentarians
the current Mining Law, there will be a lot to talk about next week including one
of the other main events a clause to give official prior consultancy rights to
locals directly affected by any mining project. Theoretically this law already
exists as part of the OIT169 international rule book to which Guatemala is a
signee, but the country now wants prior consultancy in its own organic law.

The law projects
will be debated and voted on in parliament next week and once passed, they’re
most likely to come into effect on January 1st 2017 (the usual date
in Guatemala for fiscal changes, but that’s only an assumption at this stage
and there’s nothing to stop them from effecting them immediately). The package
is likely to pass largely to the government’s liking too, with influential
people such as the US Ambassador to Guatemala making off-record noises of
approval for the reforms and the anti-corruption body CICIG approving (and set
to receive more State funding as a result). We should also note that the 10%
mining royalty isn’t the most extreme proposal out there, as the centre-left
TODOS party, an umbrella political coalition made up of several smaller groups
typically connected with indigenous rights and rural communities that controls
just 18 of the 158 parliament seats in Congress, counter-proposed on Friday a
law that raised royalties on mining operations to 25% (11). The 25% level is
unlikely to pass however, it has the look of the radical outlier that lets the
government proposed 10% pass more easily.

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